Josephine's Lorikeet

SCI Name:  Charmosyna josefinae
Protonym:  Trichoglossus Josefinae AttiSoc.Ital.Sci.Nat.Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat.Milano 15 p.427 pl.7
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Charmosyna
Taxonomy Code:  joslor1
Type Locality:  No locality = Arfak Mountains.
Author:  Finsch
Publish Year:  1873
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CHARMOSYNA
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Papuan Lorikeet C. papou) Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together; "Genus X.  Charmosyna ***) Wagl.  Sittichlori.   Rostrum, lingua et pedes Trichoglossorum; cauda longula, cuneata, rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis.   Australiae incola.  Vitae ratio ignota.  Species: 1. Ch. papuensis.   ...   ***) Xαρμοσυνος  amoenus. — Avis generis naturaliter connectit psittacos praecedentes longicaudatos [Trichoglossus] cum sequentibus [Eos], qui rubri sunt et caudam conico-acuminatam habent." (Wagler 1832); "Charmosyna Wagler, Abh. k. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 493. Type, by monotypy, Ch. papuensis = Psittacus papuensis Gmelin = Psittacus papou Scopoli." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 158).
Var. Charmosina.
Synon. Charminetta, Charmosynopsis, Hypocharmosyna, Pyrrhodes.

charmosyna
Gr. χαρμοσυνος kharmosunos  glad, joyful, festive  < χαρμα kharma, χαρματος kharmatos  joy, delight  < χαιρω khairō  to rejoice; συν sun  together.

josefinae
Josefina Charlotte Maria Finsch née Wychodil (fl. 1882) first wife of German ornithologist Friedrich Finsch (Charmosyna).

SUBSPECIES

Josephine's Lorikeet (josefinae)
SCI Name: Charmosyna josefinae josefinae
josefinae
Josefina Charlotte Maria Finsch née Wychodil (fl. 1882) first wife of German ornithologist Friedrich Finsch (Charmosyna).

Josephine's Lorikeet (cyclopum)
SCI Name: Charmosyna josefinae cyclopum
cyclopum
Cyclops Mts., western New Guinea.

Josephine's Lorikeet (sepikiana)
SCI Name: Charmosyna josefinae sepikiana
sepik / sepikensis / sepikiana
Sepik River, Sepik District, New Guinea.